Navi Mumbai: Man shoots woman and her sister after she ends relationship; accomplice absconding

A 20yearold woman and her elder sister sustained bullet injuries after a man allegedly opened fire at them in Navi Mumbais Koparkhairane area on Thursday night following the younger womans decision to end their relationship police said on FridayThe main accused identified as 22yearold Arjun Chavan was taken into custody within hours of the incident His alleged accomplice Rakesh Chavan escaped and is yet to be traced a police official saidTwo sisters injured in Koparkhairane firingAccording to police the incident took place in the Koparkhairane area on Thursday night Arjun allegedly fired two rounds at the 20yearold woman and her 22yearold elder sister after the younger woman ended her romantic relationship with himOne of the sisters sustained a bullet injury near her ear while the other was shot in the back Both women were rushed to a civic hospital for treatment police saidThe shooting triggered a police response in the area with officers launching a search for the accused and his alleged accompliceMain accused taken into custodyPolice identified the main accused as Arjun Chavan 22 and said he was apprehended hours after the shooting His alleged accomplice Rakesh Chavan managed to escape and remains abscondingInvestigators are continuing efforts to trace the second accused and establish the sequence of events leading to the shootingCase registered under BNS and Arms ActA case has been registered under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita BNS and the Arms Act the police official saidPolice are investigating the circumstances surrounding the attack including the alleged motive linked to the breakdown of the relationship Further details about the weapon and the role of the absconding accused are yet to be establishedUnidentified man killed after being hit by train in BeedIn another incident an unidentified man standing on railway tracks was killed after being hit by a passenger train in Maharashtras Beed district police saidThe incident occurred on Wednesday morning on the newly operational AhilyanagarBeed railway route at Loni Syedmeer village in Ashti tehsil they saidThe train was heading from Ahilyanagar towards Beed when the motorman saw the man standing on the tracks and sounded the horn but he did not move and was struck The man died on the spot a police official saidThe motorman immediately alerted the police who sent the body for postmortem and later shifted it to a mortuary at the Beed District Government HospitalThe man believed to be in his 40s was wearing a brown shirt and blue trousers at the time of the incident the official said The police have appealed to the public to help establish his identityWith inputs from PTI